Founding Designer

Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment firm partnering with leading US-based startups. We are hiring for a rapidly scaling, embedded FinTech B2B SaaS company building modern accounting and bookkeeping infrastructure for SMB platforms. Backed by top-tier venture investors, the company is API-first, well-capitalized, and operating at strong growth velocity. It is assembling a high-ownership team in San Francisco to support its next phase of scale.

Role Snapshot
Role:

Founding Product Designer (IC)
Compensation:

$160K – $210K base + competitive equity
Location:

San Francisco, US | On-site (5 days/week)
Years of Experience:

4–6+ years of product design experience with strong end-to-end ownership
Platform:

Embedded B2B SaaS with consumer-like UX, data-heavy financial workflows
Benefits:

Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision), employee-friendly equity plan, lunch provided in-office

About The Client
The company builds

API-first, embedded accounting and bookkeeping software

that enables vertical SaaS platforms and neobanks to launch fully white-labeled accounting products for their SMB customers. Instead of relying on external tools, small businesses manage accounting directly within the software they already use. The platform supports complex, high-trust financial workflows while maintaining a clean, intuitive, consumer-like user experience. The company has raised

$9M in funding , works with

25+ platform customers (Series A to public companies) , and is at a critical inflection point as product surface area and customer adoption expand rapidly.

Why consider this role?

Own end-to-end product design, from discovery through high-fidelity UI, across embedded accounting and bookkeeping experiences.

Act as the founding designer, owning the entire design function including product UX, design systems, and select brand/website work.

Partner closely with the CEO and Engineering in a low-process, high-ownership environment.

Design flexible, white-labeled UI patterns that adapt seamlessly to partner platforms.

Build and evolve a cohesive design system without slowing shipping velocity.

Translate ambiguous, data-heavy financial problems into clear, usable, production-ready experiences.

Work directly with customers to support onboarding, embedded UI launches, and best practices.

Join at a career-defining stage with real influence over product direction, quality, and outcomes.

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